Following a B.A. in Fine Art at Portsmouth, Brian was awarded a travel scholarship to the USA, where he gained his Masters Degree at the University of Eastern Illinois. On his return to England, he lived in London where he painted and exhibited. He has had many exhibitions and his paintings are in collections as far afield as New Zealand and the USA. He now lives and works by the sea in Kent, UK.
Brian states of his work; ‘My paintings are very much influenced and affected by my love of painting, particularly Post-War British and American abstraction. I start a painting by applying paint at random. Initially the painting itself dictates its own direction, until form is found and a p ...

About the artwork

‘My paintings start with an idea, often of an image remembered, it might be a landscape, an interior or a still life. As I paint, I try to reduce and simplify the image to capture and convey the mood or atmosphere it created.’ - Brian Bartlett

The vigorous compositions of colour and light that result create a very real sense of space. Brian’s paintings can be seen as celebrations of colour which are both decorative and sensual. His pigments glow and sing with a vibrancy and sensuality that become expressions of the joy of life.

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About Brian Bartlett

Following a B.A. in Fine Art at Portsmouth, Brian was awarded a travel scholarship to the USA, where he gained his Masters Degree at the University of Eastern Illinois. On his return to England, he lived in London where he painted and exhibited. He has had many exhibitions and his paintings are in collections as far afield as New Zealand and the USA. He now lives and works by the sea in Kent, UK.
Brian states of his work; ‘My paintings are very much influenced and affected by my love of painting, particularly Post-War British and American abstraction. I start a painting by applying paint at random. Initially the painting itself dictates its own direction, until form is found and a p ...

About the artwork

‘My paintings start with an idea, often of an image remembered, it might be a landscape, an interior or a still life. As I paint, I try to reduce and simplify the image to capture and convey the mood or atmosphere it created.’ - Brian Bartlett

The vigorous compositions of colour and light that result create a very real sense of space. Brian’s paintings can be seen as celebrations of colour which are both decorative and sensual. His pigments glow and sing with a vibrancy and sensuality that become expressions of the joy of life.